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	Tibetan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tibetan language is typically classified as member of the Tibeto-Burman which in turn is thought by some to be a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
		Old Tibetan phonology is rather accurately rendered by the script, with the exception that the distinction between aspirate and unaspirate voiceless stops was likely subphonemic.
		Tibetans also studied their own language, mostly for translation purpose for diplomacy (with India and China) or religion (from Buddhism).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibetan_language (1327 words)

	Tibetan script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The letters which are based in form on an Indic alphabet of that period, but which specific Indic script inspired the Tibetan alphabet remains controversial.
		Although the Tibetan script accurately reflects the pronunciation of the Tibetan at the time of its invention, in some dialects, in particular Lhasa, the pronuncation and spelling differ significantly, due to phonetic change.
		Although some Tibetan dialects are tonal, because the language had no tone at the time of the scripts invention, tones are nor written.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibetan_alphabet (613 words)

	Tibetan Fonts
		Tibetan is included in the Unicode standard, but the required support from the standard operating systems and word-processing software has yet to be implemented.
		Tibetan Machine is also one of the most comprehensive font in its coverage of Tibetan punctuation marks and a variety of other symbols not found in most other fonts.
		These, their Tibetan word processing software and electronic literature using the fonts are available for purchase from the Tibetan Computer Company (for details contact TCC at tdolma@wlink.com.np or at Snow Lion Publications).
	www.thdl.org /xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml (621 words)

	Tibetan alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The new Tibetan alphabet was used to write Tibetan translations of Buddhists texts.
		Tibetan literature is mainly concerned with Buddhist themes and includes works translated from Sanskrit and Chinese and original Tibetan works.
		In Mongolia Tibetan is considered the Classical language of Buddhism and was widely taught until quite recently.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tibetan.htm (400 words)

	Language & Literature
		Tibetan was not a written language until an alphabet for it was devised in the 7th-century CE employing a form of Devnagri (Skt.
		Tibetan calligraphers have developed several different styles of script and many variations, and enjoy them as a form of poetic-cum-graphic expression in the manner of the Chinese calligraphists.
		Introduction to the Tibetan alphabet and its use.
	www.khandro.net /LangnLit_toc.htm (1124 words)

	Tibetan alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Tibetan alphabet was created in the mid- 7th century, byThonmi Sambhota, a Tibetan official, with the assistance of some Indian Buddhist monks.
		Like English, Tibetan suffers from a wide divergence between the two soa choice must be made.
		Tibetan scholars have settled on the Wylie transliteration scheme which is useful for reconstructing the original Tibetan sequenceof letters, but near useless in indicating pronunciation (unless you take it upon yourself to study the irregularitiesof Tibetan spelling).
	www.therfcc.org /tibetan-alphabet-105411.html (472 words)

	Tibetan script - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The creation of the Tibetan script is traditionally ascribed to Thonmi Sambhoṭa in the mid-7th century.
		Although the Tibetan script accurately reflects the pronunciation of the Tibetan at the time of its invention.
		Many amatueres are in favour of transliterating Tibetan "as it is pronounced" without ever specifying what is meant my that.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Tibetan_alphabet (708 words)

	ipedia.com: Tibetan language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tibetan is written with a Sanskrit-derived script — see Tibetan alphabet for details.
		The chief differences between the classical language of the Tibetan translators of the 9th century and the present day vernacular are in vocabulary, phraseology and grammatical structure.
		Tibetans also studied their own language, mostly for translation purpose for diplomacy (with China) or religion (from Buddhism).
	www.ipedia.com /tibetan_language.html (1417 words)

	Literature - Tibetan Cultural Directory
		Tashi Verlag (this is Tashi Publishers in English): The Tashi Verlag presents high quality translations from Tibetan into German from classics of Tibetan Buddhism, a textbook on Tibetan Language, a book about the connection as well as the differences between Tibetan Buddhism and psychology/psychotherapy, and a spiritual novel.
		Tibetan Book of the Dead, The: Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual and Meditation from the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India and Nepal: The Tibetan Collection now supports the research of students and faculty in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
		Tibetan Alphabet and Language, The:Instructions and material for learning the Tibetan alphabet - also includes useful phrases.
	www.kotan.org /tibet/directory/literature.html (1443 words)

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		But a majority of them considered that at the end of the first thousand years AD the Uigurs adopted their alphabet from the Sogdians and in the thirteenth century the Mongols in turn borrowed it from the Uigurs.
		Tibetan and Chinese, caused the evolution of the system of transcribing into the Mongolian script called ali-kali, devised by Ayush-gush in 1587.
		In official documents it is stated that the reason for the change from the Mongolian script to the new form of writing was twohold: (1) there was a great gap between the written and spoken languages, and (2) the Mongolian script was not suitable for the assimilation of foreign words.
	www.indiana.edu /~mongsoc/mong/language.htm (1204 words)

	Writing/Tibet "roof of the world"\
		The Tibetan language is translated into Roman script in many different ways.
		That's because the Tibetan language is spoken in differently in each region of Tibet.
		Tibetan letters can be changed by adding vowels and consonants conjuncts.
	library.thinkquest.org /25772/site/nojavaenglish/writing.html (182 words)

	Fluent Tibetan - Interactive Tutorial
		Also provided on this CD is a Tibetan-English glossary that is searchable in both Tibetan and English, and an introduction to the Tibetan alphabet along with a presentation of Tibetan phonemics.
		Beyond that, by means of randomization and user-defined programmed presentations, this CD attempts to bring the language to life, so that the student is constantly challenged to pick out familiar words in new contexts and to discover new words in familiar contexts.
		This CD is an excellent introduction to the Tibetan language, providing the resources needed to read Tibetan script and enough vocabulary and dialogues to develop significant mastery of the language.
	www.tibet.dk /tibetan_clipart/fluent.htm (489 words)

	Learn Tibetan
		The Tibetan alphabet is derived from the ancient Brahmi script - so one can see similarities to the Indian alphabets.
		Such a difference appears between the two since many of the Tibetan letters can also be used to mark tone, change a vowel sound, or even change the sound of another consonant.
		The Tibetan alphabet was created also with the idea for using it to write Sanskrit words.
	chinese-school.netfirms.com /Tibet/tibet.html (1254 words)

	Naropa Online - Online Tibetan I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Tibetan Language Correspondence Course" by Sarah Harding and Jeremy Morrelli covers much of the same material as this online class and is available from s.harding@comcast.net.
		For more exercises in learning the alphabet, you can get "Tibetan Language Pre-Primer" by Catherine Kielsmeier, who completed the Correspondence Course, from Tendrel Publications, P.O. Box 183, Forestville, CA 95436 You may find other useful materials by looking in Snow Lion Publications catalogue.
		She is a Buddhist teacher and Tibetan translator of both the oral and written language, including the published books: Creation and Completion by Jamgon Kongtrul, Machik's Complete Explanation, and The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa.
	www.naropa.edu /distance/courses/REL513e.htm (395 words)

	Indian and Tibetan philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Tibetan philosophers followed the habit of Indians in that they made their principal contributions by writing commentaries on earlier texts (see Tibetan philosophy).
		Tibetan is a language of the Sino-Tibetan family, which includes various languages spoken in China as well as Burmese and Thai.
		It is written in a phonetic alphabet derived from the Brahmi script of India, from which most modern Indian scripts, as well as the alphabets used to write Sinhalese, Thai and Mon, are also derived.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/F086 (2567 words)

	The Future of Digital Standards: Nitartha International - - ancient wisdom for the modern mind
		in the Tibetan alphabet can be combined or "stacked" in a variety of ways, typical Tibetan fonts that have been developed with pre-combined stacks have required a minimum of 200 glyphs, and sometimes hundreds more.
		When Tibetan fonts subsequently violate the reserved character "understandings," and use the reserved spaces out of the necessity of obtaining a sufficiently large glyph set, the software programs that use the reserved characters for programming calls either break or display certain characters incorrectly.
		First, Tibetan font designers can develop a standard for font encoding so that fonts in one system may be interchanged with fonts in another system.
	www.nitartha.org /future_standards.html (1107 words)

	How to Use the Tibetan-English Dictionary at Nitartha International - home for digital Tibetan, is dedicated to ...
		Second, Tibetan uses "stacked" characters, that is, ligatures composed of multiple glyphs from the Tibetan alphabet.
		Fourth, Tibetan word endings are not indicated with any glyphs or marks, such as the space character used in English and other Roman character based written languages.
		The tsek, or syllable separation character, is indicated in the entry form for the dictionary by the use of a space (one press on the space bar).
	www.nitartha.org /dictionary_how_to.html (884 words)

	Alphabet Used For Transcription
		Accents have been, however, introduced in geographical names only; in the other native words I have limited myself to distinguishing the quantity of the syllables which are long.
		The point separating the syllables in Tibetan words and sentences, is rendered by a small horizontal line.
		The compound letters, seventy-four in number, and formed by having another letter subjoined or surmounted, are transliterated thus: the subjoined letter is written behind the radical, as e.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/bit/bit02.htm (442 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Tibetan script
		The 30 consonants, which are deemed to possess an inherent sound a, are the following (with alternative transliterations in parentheses):
		However, certain silent consonant letters (notably འ 'a) are sometimes used to indicate long vowels in pronunciation, even in native Tibetan words.
		Though Tibetan is tonal, there are no tone marks as such; rather, tones are indicated by the use of otherwise silent consonant letters.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Tibetan_alphabet (802 words)

	Tibetan Dictionaries, books on Learning Tibetan, Software & CD-ROMs
		Featuring the Tibetan word on one side of the card with its spelling, pronunciation, and English equivalent on the other side, they are a highly effective way to learn vocabulary.
		The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa, as it is currently used in Tibet as well as amongst the Tibetan diaspora.
		This is a true Tibetan dictionary in Tibetan text; useful for Tibetans themselves and students of the Tibetan language who want a native Tibetan dictionary uncluttered by English or Chinese definitions.
	www.rangjung.com /rootfiles/tibetan_language_books.htm (2237 words)

	THDL: Tibetan Input Methods
		Tise (pronounced ‘tee-say’) is an Unicode Tibetan input utility for WinXP devoped by Gregory Mokhin and based upon the EWTS transliteration system.
		In the other, the Tibetan letters are assign to the keyboard based on their frequency of use.
		The Tibetan Machine Web font was created through the collaboration of Tony Duff and the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library using the Tibetan Machine font made available by the Trace Foundation.
	thdl.org /tools/input.html (1412 words)

	Snow Lion Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is a complete language course built around the exposition of a famous Tibetan text on the Summary of the General Path to Buddhahood written at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
		He continues to teach Tibetan and Buddhist philosophy privately in Ithaca, New York at the Nagarjuna Language Institute (www.giganticom.com) which he founded.
		He has taught Classical Tibetan at Dharma Farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in Taos, New Mexico; and he teaches regular seminars at the Healing Buddha Foundation in Sebastopol, California.
	www.snowlionpub.com /search.php?isbn=HORECL (416 words)

	PKTC - Online Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andreas's translations point the way to what can be done and are a remarkable resource for people studying Tibetan buddhism intensively, for example in the various colleges that are now springing up.
		To assist students further, we make available an electronic copy of the root text in Tibetan with software for searching the text, and electronic dictionaries for use with the electronic text; they can be obtained here dictionaries, texts, and software.
		Andreas is a student of the dharma with many years of experience as a Tibetan translator.
	www.tibet.dk /pktc/onlinepubs.htm (1521 words)

	Tibetan History
		The Tibetan was the descendents of a male Monkey and a female Rock-demon.
		Tibetan became angry at Tu-Yu Huen and sent a large army to attack and drive it from the valleys around the source of Yellow river.
		Tibetans used the 12 animal symbols for years as in Tang, furthermore they used Yin-Yan times the 5 elements, i.e., 10 symbols which corresponded to the Han 10 numeral symbols Chia, Yee,.....etc, plus 12 animal symbols to form a 60 valued system (sexagenary) as in Tang.
	omni.cc.purdue.edu /~wtv/tibet/history.html (11546 words)

	Alphabets - Tibetan Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		he Tibetan alphabet was composed for the translation of Buddhism sacred texts, in the 7 Th century.
		It comes from the cursive writing used at that time in central India; it was composed with the intention to simplify thanks to a rigorous phonetic knowledge.
		The inventor was Thonmi Sambhota, minister of the first Tibetan king, converted to Buddhism; perhaps he brought in sacred books this Indian writing.
	www.imultimedia.pt /museuvirtpress/ing/alfa/a8.html (67 words)

	KTD--Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche-Part I--
		He was born in the second Tibetan month of 1924, the fourth child to a modest but self-sufficient nomad family.
		Since night was falling, the Tibetan refugees were able to escape via a nearby swamp, and readied three horses to carry Thrangu Rinpoche, Traleg Rinpoche, and Zuru Tulku.
		During his stay, Tibetan settlements were established in several areas of India, and many monks resettled in the new communities.
	www.kagyu.org /karmapa/tea/tea15.html (1487 words)

	Russia, Kursk - CDI RW 14 January 2005
		Once she learns the alphabet, she will be able to read traditional Buddhist prayers just like her ancestors, who practiced Buddhism until the 1930s, when the Soviet regime virtually stamped out religion in Kalmykia.
		Descended from Mongolian tribes who were part of Genghis Khan’s empire, the Kalmyks settled near the mouth of the Volga in the early 17th century, switching their allegiance to the Russian tsar, who was seeking a buffer zone to protect Russia from the peoples of the Caucasus.
		At about the same time, the Kalmyks finished their conversion to Tibetan Buddhism, establishing close ties with the Dalai Lama and becoming the only Buddhist ethnicity native to Europe.
	www.cdi.org /russia/338-26.cfm (1059 words)

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